Ex Manus aren't technically "new", in 2013 they ran a successful Indiegogo campaign to launch Ex Manus Studios, but they are a fledgling operation based in Australia with some cute sculpts and hopefully a bright future, so why not take a look!They first caught my eye at SMASH Con in August 2014 with a selection of miniatures and some really nice prototypes to whet the appetite, so I bought one to test the quality and sculpting.There's something refreshing about a sculptor who actually sculpts 1 to 1 and not 2-up or 3-up and this instantly appealed.The look of some of the models obviously has some basis in pop culture, which is pretty cool, especially if you would like that character in your gaming universe.

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I picked up the Outlaw Gunslinger, who bears a passing resemblance to Trigun, or maybe just a Steampunk bounty hunter.The sculpting on this guys is nice, the casting is clean and the material used is a nice quality metal, not shiny or dirty and flawless. In terms of metal miniatures, this is a really nice example of a small studio doing it right!

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